In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split. - Wilfred Burchett
Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.
- Wilfred Burchett
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. - Wilfred Burchett
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. - Wilfred Burchett
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. - Wilfred Burchett
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so… - Wilfred Burchett
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so…
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-peopl… - Wilfred Burchett
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-peopl…
My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency… - Wilfred Burchett
My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency…
When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling … - Wilfred Burchett
When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling …
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pac… - Wilfred Burchett
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pac…
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